Gucci Memoire d'Une Odeur

Mostly dry medicinal greenery, like a herb garden or loose-leaf tea. Underneath that, dry and warm, like cedar shavings or the inside of a wooden drawer.

It opens on chamomile and bitter almond, moves through musk, indian jasmine and jasmine, and settles on sandalwood, cedar and vanilla.

• musk: soft, warm and skin-like. More the impression of clean skin than a smell of its own
• jasmine: a rich white flower, heady and full. Up close it turns slightly animal, which some people love and others find too much

It lasts an average amount of time and sits close to the skin after the first hour.

Built from the note listing and the measured performance figures. We have not smelled this one.